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Lulu Blooker Contest Opens - Have You Blooked Today?

The 2nd annual Blooker prize is now open. Any book that has been based on a blog or website is eligible. The contest is sponsored by Lulu, an online print-on-demand publisher.

Lulu encourages authors to "blookify" their book content in time for the January 15, 2007 deadline. If I read their post right, what this means is that you can use your blog to create some content for it on your blog to qualify. It doesn't say that the entire content has to be created or published on a blog.

The Lulu Blooker Prize is the world's first literary prize devoted to "blooks"—books based on websites such as blogs and webcomics.

The prize will be awarded in three categories:

1. Fiction
2. Non-Fiction
3. Comics

We're not talking peanuts and a t-shirt here, folks. First Prize is $10,000, not to mention the publicity and fame. Category prizes are $2,500.

Lulu claims to be the world's fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books, including a growing number of blooks. However, the judges are independent of Lulu and no favor will be shown to blooks published on Lulu. The winners will be announced Monday, May 14, 2007.

The 2006 Overall Winner was Julie & Julia, by Julie Powell. This clever book was written by a young woman who decided to try out every recipe in the Julia Child's Joy of French Cooking book in her tiny apartment kitchen.

Judges are Paul Jones (Chair), Arianna Huffington, Julie Powell (winner 2006), Rohit Gupta, and Nick Cohen.

Coming Soon: The People's Blooker— Nominate and vote for your favorite blooks. That should be fun.

Lulu can't claim to have invented the term "blook," but they do stake their claim on the verb "to blookify." Since money is involved, it might be better to get some specifics from Lulu on what blookify would mean to you and your book.

For sure, get cracking on blooking your book! Just a little blook each day, and you'll be there before January 15th.

Summer Reading List Blues

Pamela Slim over at Escape from Cubicle Nation complains about her Amazon addiction, and points to a great list of summer reading for entrepreneurs:

http://read.ducttapemarketing.com/2006/07/a_great_list_of.html

Pamela says, "I will not buy one more book until I make it through the stack on the edge of my bathtub.  Remind me to buy some stock in Amazon, as I am a hopeless addict.  I really should visit the library more often so that I don't have to work so hard to support my book habit. Thanks to the folks at 800-CEO-Read on Duct Tape Marketing's Blog Channel for the info."

Does this sound like you? I've been so busy buying books on Amazon, I haven't had time to read. No I kid you not. And instead of the bathtub, they get taken on every trip I make.

Denise and I are off to San Jose, to the BlogHer Conference, and I will take about 4 books on blogging with me to read on the plane. Never mind that the trip is only 2 hours long, my eyes are bigger than my carry-on.

Have  you got the book-blues too? Hit the comment link and share your book list woes.

Co-Authoring Expert Steven E Reveals Bestseller Secrets

This Wednesday, July 19th at 8:30 ET, Conversations with Experts will feature co-authoring expert Steven E, TEAM Publishers

How to Get Instant Credibility with a Bestselling Book

You too can be a best selling author with the Wake Up...Live the Life You Love series. We give you Instant Credibility... and take you to the best seller list. We have 3 programs in one. First, we take you through the publishing process starting with your story submission. Next, we teach you how to build your business with a book through our exclusive Millionaire Book Marketing Method.

As a bonus, we produce a book and take you to the best seller list. You will be able to say that you are a best selling author for the rest of your life. We currently have 12 million stories in print around the world.

NOTE: This Conversation is a bit of departure for The Blog Squad. We have had a lot of requests for information about how to get published fast and easy so we are bringing you the experts from TEAM Publishing so you can learn about this powerful program for getting into print fast.

Registration is required at www.conversationswithexperts.com

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Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line
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Conversations with Experts is sponsored by Build a Better Blog System.

List Building & Ezine Broadcasting

Our multi-media package on "25 Proven Ways to Grow Your Ezine List" is finally launched! 

The last couple of weeks we've been working feverishly to complete this comprehensive package based on our recent teleseminar.

http://www.growyourezinelist.com

Here's what you'll learn...

This information package will give you the insider secrets to growing a list that will reward you with Internet sales. Save yourself time and money by learning what we have discovered doing business on the Internet for over a dozen years:

• Which database and email broadcasting systems work the best so you don't have to worry about keeping track of subscriptions
• How to write an opt-in web page that includes a paragraph that is shown to double sign-ups
• What's a "squeeze page" and do they work?
• How to craft a compelling ezine description
• What to put on the "thank you" page and follow up autoresponder messages
• 25 tips for growing your list
• 3 keys to retaining subscribers

Our multi-media package on "25 Proven Ways to Grow Your Ezine List" is finally launched! 

The last couple of weeks we've been working feverishly to complete this comprehensive package based on our recent teleseminar.

http://www.growyourezinelist.com

Here's what you'll learn...

This information package will give you the insider secrets to growing a list that will reward you with Internet sales. Save yourself time and money by learning what we have discovered doing business on the Internet for over a dozen years:

• Which database and email broadcasting systems work the best so you don't have to worry about keeping track of subscriptions
• How to write an opt-in web page that includes a paragraph that is shown to double sign-ups
• What's a "squeeze page" and do they work?
• How to craft a compelling ezine description
• What to put on the "thank you" page and follow up autoresponder messages
• 25 tips for growing your list
• 3 keys to retaining subscribers